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Members of the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service Marine Unit are adapting to life onboard a new fleet of Cape Class vessels. Bigger, faster and capable of going further than their predecessors ever could, the new patrol boats are the future of Australia's maritime border ...

It's been an anxious week for Queensland banana growers as tests continue for a soil disease that could threaten the industry. A plantation at Tully in far north Queensland has been quarantined after a strain of Panama disease was detected. The same soil fungus wiped out the Northern Territory's ...

Authorities in Dallas, Texas are monitoring 80 to 100 people for symptoms of Ebola to ensure the containment of the virus. The first patient diagnosed with the deadly disease, Liberian man Thomas Eric Duncan, remains in a serious condition in an isolation ward in a Dallas hospital. Liberian ...

China is the world's biggest importer of dairy products and changes to quarantine rules mean Australian dairy producers have a shot at a bigger slice of the market. The changes mean that fresh milk will now be on Chinese shelves in seven days - as opposed to the three weeks it could take under the old ...